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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 5636374" data-attributes="member: 11760">1E and 2E have more in common than either has with BD&amp;D. And the people who like OD&amp;D and the various versions of BD&amp;D are very attached to them, and conglomerating them all into a whole wouldn't really work.If you were going to streamline, it'd be AD&amp;D (1E and 2E), 3E, 4E, and Other. But I don't think there's much value in that sort of recategorization.As Mearls has been suggesting for a while now, the core D&amp;D game play of &quot;roll a D20, higher numbers are better, compare to a target number, roll different dice for the result,&quot; is pretty universal to all editions. If they were going to support previous versions, I'd imagine they'd create a Universal D&amp;D core that worked off that, with other edition-flavored rule set add-ons, that they'd support with an appendix in any given adventure (or, in the age of Internet publishing, by selecting the right version on a Web page, and the edition-specific stuff would be added to that basic core).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 5636374, member: 11760"] 1E and 2E have more in common than either has with BD&D. And the people who like OD&D and the various versions of BD&D are very attached to them, and conglomerating them all into a whole wouldn't really work. If you were going to streamline, it'd be AD&D (1E and 2E), 3E, 4E, and Other. But I don't think there's much value in that sort of recategorization. As Mearls has been suggesting for a while now, the core D&D game play of "roll a D20, higher numbers are better, compare to a target number, roll different dice for the result," is pretty universal to all editions. If they were going to support previous versions, I'd imagine they'd create a Universal D&D core that worked off that, with other edition-flavored rule set add-ons, that they'd support with an appendix in any given adventure (or, in the age of Internet publishing, by selecting the right version on a Web page, and the edition-specific stuff would be added to that basic core). [/QUOTE]

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